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Library 

OF  THE 

University  of  NortH  Carolina 

This  book  was  presented  by 

O-  Qh  Do'rrn 


FOREWORD 


The  New  Codified  School  Law  says  that  every 
county  board  of  education  in  the  State  shall  prepare 
a  county-wide  plan  for  consolidating  the  schools  of 
the  county.  After  it  is  prepared  a  meeting  of  all  the 
committeemen  and  trustees  of  the  county  shall  be 
called  and  this  plan  presented  to  them  for  discussion 
and  approval  or  disapproval. 

The  meeting  of  committees  and  trustees  provided 
for  in  this  law  was  held  for  Carteret  County  in  Beau¬ 
fort  on  October  the  16th.  At  this  meeting  a  county- 
wide  consolidation  plan  was  presented  to  the  commit¬ 
tees  by  the  board  of  education  and  after  considerable 
discussion  was  unanimously  adopted. 

The  county-wide  unit  plan  of  organization  which 
would  take  the  place  of  the  present  special  tax  dis¬ 
trict  was  also  discussed  and  approved  by  the  commit¬ 
teemen.  The  committeemen  requested  that  the  board 
of  education  have  a  pamphlet  printed  explaining  the 
plan  adopted  for  county-wide  consolidation  and  also 
the  county-unit  plan  of  school  organization  and  dis¬ 
tribute  the  pamphlet  throughout  the  county  in  order 
that  the  people  might  become  acquainted  with  the 
facts  about  school  consolidation  and  organization. 
This  pamphlet  sets  forth  the  county-wide  consolida¬ 
tion  plan  and  the  county-unit  plan  mentioned  above 
and  discusses  school  consolidation  in  general. 


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TO  THE  PEOPLE  OF  CARTERET  COUNTY : 

The  law  of  the  State  has  laid  upon  us  the  duty  of  pre¬ 
paring  a  plan  for  the  county-wide  consolidation  of  schools. 
We  have  prepared  this  plan  as  best  we  knew  how,  after 
two  years  of  constant  and  painstaking  study.  We  have 
presented  the  plan  to  the  school  committees  of  the  county 
and  they  have  approved  it.  At  the  request  of  the  commit¬ 
tees  assembled  in  a  county-wide  meeting  on  October  the 
16th,  1923,  we  are  presenting  this  plan  to  you. 

We  do  not  claim  that  it  is  perfect.  Many  improve¬ 
ments  will,  no  doubt,  be  made  in  the  future.  We  do  claim, 
however,  that  we,  as  loyal  citizens  of  the  county  with  its 
best  interests  at  heart,  have  tried  to  give  you  the  best 
school  system  we  could  with  the  means  at  our  command. 
We  have  tried  to  lay  out  on  broad  lines  the  foundation  for 
a  county-wide  school  system.  We  have  tried  to  take  a 
liberal  view  of  each  proposition  as  it  presented  itself  and 
where  possible  to  solve  it  for  the  future  as  well  as  the 
present. 

We  wish  to  express  our  appreciation  to  the  progressive 
friends  of  education  in  the  county  who  have  cooperated 
with  us  and  made  it  possible  to  put  into  operation  during 
the  past  two  years  the  major  part  of  this  plan  for  county¬ 
wide  consolidation.  We  hope  you  will  give  your  attention 
to  the  advantages  of  the  county-unit  plan  of  school  organ¬ 
ization  as  discussed  in  this  pamphlet,  and  if  you  think  it 
is  a  good  thing,  and  that  every  child  in  the  county  should 
have  equal  educational  advantages,  with  an  eight  months 
school  term,  cast  your  vote  for  the  plan  when  opportunity 
presents  itself.  In  the  near  future  an  election  will  be 
called  under  the  act  quoted  in  this  pamphlet  TO  ECONO¬ 
MIZE  AND  EQUALIZE  SCHOOL  ADVANTAGES  IN 
CARTERET  COUNTY. 


R.  T.  WADE,  Chairman, 
W.  H.  TAYLOR, 

W.  IRVIN  WILLIS, 

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Board  of  Education 
of  Carteret  Co. 


A  COUNTY-WIDE  PLAN  FOR  CONSOL¬ 
IDATING  THE  SCHOOLS  OF 
CARTERET  COUNTY 


The  new  school  law  makes  it  mandatory  upon  every 
county  board  of  education  to  adopt  a  county-wide  plan 
for  consolidating  the  schools  of  each  county  and  after 
this  plan  of  county-wide  consolidation  is  adopted  by  the 
board  of  education  and  the  school  committeemen  of  the 
county  all  consolidations  in  the  future  must  conform  to 
the  plan. 

The  consolidation  plan  discussed  and  adopted  unani¬ 
mously  by  the  board  of  education  and  the  school  commit¬ 
teemen  of  Carteret  County  provides  for  five  large  consol¬ 
idations  for  the  county  and  several  small  ones.  The  con¬ 
solidation  centres  where  high  schools  have  been  estab' 
lished  or  probably  will  be  are  as  follows: 

White  Oak  Township  Consolidation 

Newport  Consolidation 

Smyrna  Township  Consolidation 

Atlantic  Consolidation. 

First,  White  Oak  Township  Consolidation,  includes  the 
larger  part  of  White  Oak  Township  and  will  possibly  in¬ 
clude  a  part  of  Morehead  City  Township.  This  school 
will  be  located  between  Bogue  and  the  present  Rocky  Run 
school  house.  This  consolidation  will  include  Weeks  Neck 
District,  Buck’s  Store  District,  Rocky  Run  District,  Bogue 
District,  Ocean  District  and  probably  Broad  Creek  and 
Stella.  This  consolidation  will  carry  with  it  a  high  school 
and  a  standard  elementary  school. 

Second,  the  Newport  Consolidation  will  stand  as  it  is 
with  the  following  additions :  The  western  part  of  the 
present  Wildwood  District,  the  Gales  Creek  District  and 
the  Broad  Creek  District,  provided  Broad  Creek  does  not 


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go  to  the  White  Oak  Township  consolidation. 

Third,  the  New  Bern  Road  Consolidation  will  include 
Harlowe  District,  Core  Creek,  Wire  Grass,  Upper  North 
River  and  Russell’s  Creek.  This  school  will  be  located 
somewhere  near  the  present  Wire  Grass  building.  This 
consolidation  will  provide  a  standard  elementary  school 
and  high  school  advantages.  This  consolidation  will  be 
one  of  the  best  in  the  county  on  account  of  the  fact  that 
a  hard  surfaced  road  will  traverse  the  whole  district. 

Fourth,  the  Smyrna  Township  Consolidation  with  the 
central  high  school  located  at  Smyrna  will  have  probably 
more  children  in  it  than  any  other  in  the  county.  This 
high  school  is  already  the  second  largest  high  school  in 
the  county,  having  more  than  a  hundred  high  school  pupils 
at  the  present  time. 

The  fifth  consolidation  will  include  Stacy,  Sea  Level 
and  Atlantic.  At  the  present  time  the  high  school  chil¬ 
dren  from  Stacy  go  to  Smyrna.  This  is  due  to  an  impassa¬ 
ble  piece  of  road  between  Stacy  and  Sea  Level.  These 
three  villages  will  be  served  above  the  seventh  grade  by 
the  Atlantic  High  School  as  a  permanent  arrangement. 

This  plan  provides  also  for  several  smaller  consolida¬ 
tions.  Camp  Glenn  Consolidation  when  complete  will  be 
composed  of  the  eastern  part  of  the  Wildwood  District, 
Crab  Point  District,  West  Morehead  and  Camp  Glenn. 
The  high  school  pupils  of  this  district  will  be  served  by 
the  Morehead  City  High  School.  The  Camp  Glenn  School 
will  be  a  standard  elementary  school.  The  county-wide 
plan  also  provides  for  consolidating  the  two  schools  on 
Cedar  Island  into  one,  also  the  South  River  School  and  the 
Merrimon  School.  It  provides  for  Lower  North  River 
School  to  be  consolidated  with  Beaufort  Graded  School. 

There  are  a  few  isolated  one-teacher  schools  that  will 
probably  have  to  remain  one-teacher  schools  for  a  long 
time,  but  it  is  the  plan  of  the  board  of  education  to  give 
these  places  the  very  best  that  can  be  had  in  a  one-teacher 
school. 


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05 


THE  COUNTY-UNIT  PLAN  OF  SCHOOL 
ORGANIZATION 


The  county-unit  plan  of  school  organization  is  a  very 
live  school  topic  at  the  present  time.  Several  counties  of 
the  State  have  already  adopted  it.  The  present  plan  of 
administration  is  on  the  old  district  plan. 

The  county-unit  plan  proposes  to  levy  the  same  rate 
of  special  school  tax  throughout  the  county  and  run  all 
of  the  schools  of  the  county  the  same  number  of  months 
and  under  as  near  the  same  conditions  as  possible.  The 
object  is  to  give  the  children  in  the  poor  and  sparsely 
settled  districts  the  same  advantages  that  the  districts 
containing  the  centres  of  wealth  and  population  have. 

The  plan  as  outlined  for  Carteret  County  proposes  a 
special  maintenance  tax  of  30c  on  the  hundred  dollars 
valuation  and  a  special  building  tax  of  20c  on  the  hundred 
dollars  valuation.  This  would  enable  us  to  run  every 
school  in  the  county  for  a  term  of  eight  months.  It  would 
enable  the  county  board  of  education  to  take  over  all  of 
the  school  district  bonds  that  have  been  issued,  paying 
the  interest  on  them  and  retiring  them  as  they  come  due 
and  in  addition  complete  the  building  program  that  has 
been  started,  giving  the  districts  that  have  not  been  pro¬ 
vided  with  adequate  buildings  the  buildings  needed. 

To  do  this  would  lower  the  tax  rate  that  is  now  being 
paid  by  most  of  the  special  tax  districts  of  the  county. 
For  instance,  Newport  and  Camp  Glenn  are  now  paying  a 
maintenance  tax  of  30c  and  a  bond  tax  of  30c,  making  a 
total  of  60c  on  the  hundred.  The  proposed  county-unit 
plan  would  give  them  the  same  advantages  for  a  tax  rate 
of  10c  less  on  the  hundred.  Davis,  Stacy  and  Sea  Level 
are  paying  a  maintenance  tax  of  30c  and  a  bond  tax  of 
25c.  This  would  enable  these  schools  to  run  eight  months 
whereas  they  have  been  unable  to  run  but  seven  and  it 
would  take  care  of  their  bonds  also,  with  a  5c  lower  tax 
rate.  The  White  Oak  Consolidated  District  will  have  a 
tax  of  30c  maintenance  and  30c  for  bonds,  making  a  total 


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of  60c.  This  plan  would  lower  the  tax  rate  of  this  district 
10c  on  the  hundred  and  provide  the  same  advantages. 
Atlantic  pays  a  50c  maintenance  tax  and  a  30c  bond  tax. 
The  county-unit  plan  would  lower  the  taxes  in  this  dis¬ 
trict  30c  on  the  hundred  and  give  it  the  same  advantages 
that  it  now  has.  Harkers  Island  Township,  Cedar  Island 
Township  and  Salter  Path  District  all  have  a  tax  rate  of 
50c  on  the  hundred,  but  this  special  tax  will  not  give  them 
more  than  a  seven  months  school.  The  county-unit  plan 
will  give  these  districts  an  additional  month  of  school 
without  increasing  their  taxes. 

It  is  easy  to  see  that  the  larger  part  of  the  county  will 
have  its  taxes  lowered  by  the  county-unit  plan  of  organi¬ 
zation  and  get  the  same  or  better  advantages. 

The  question  naturally  arises,  how  can  this  be?  The 
explanation  is  that  there  is  a  lot  of  property  in  the  county 
held  for  speculative  purposes  in  the  out-of-the-way  places 
that  is  not  in  any  particular  school  district  and  that  es¬ 
capes  special  school  taxes  entirely.  Is  there  any  reason 
why  outside  capitalists  should  come  into  the  county  and 
buy  up  our  land  and  hold  it  for  speculation  and  not  help 
to  bear  the  burden  of  taxation  while  their  property  is 
becoming  more  and  more  valuable  every  day?  There  is 
no  reason  why  the  owners  of  this  property  should  be 
shielded  from  their  share  of  the  taxes  to  develop  the 
county  and  enhance  the  value  of  their  property. 

The  county-unit  plan  proposes  to  do  three  things: 
First,  to  equalize  school  advantages  throughout  the 
county,  giving  the  rich  and  the  poor  the  same  advan¬ 
tages.  Second,  it  proposes  to  equalize  the  tax  rate  for 
schools  throughout  the  county.  Third,  it  proposes  to 
lower  the  special  school  tax  rate  in  a  majority  of  the  spe¬ 
cial  tax  districts  of  the  county. 

The  proposed  county-unit  plan  includes  only  the  rural 
territory  of  the  county.  The  graded  school  districts  of 
Morehead  City  and  Beaufort  may  vote  themselves  in  and 
become  a  part  of  it  if  they  care  to,  but  this  would  be  done 
at  and  under  a  separate  election. 


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CAMP  GLENN  ELEMENTARY  SCHOOL 


We  stand  a-tiptoe  on  the  misty  mountain  height  and  see  the 
morning  sun  make  purple  the  glories  of  the  east.  We  are  enter¬ 
ing  upon  a  new  day,  the  day  of  equality,  of  opportunity,  the  hour 
when  every  man  shall  be  free  to  work  mightily  for  himself  until 
his  soul,  filled  to  satisfaction,  shall  overflow  with  a  common 
benefit  to  mankind,  owing  no  tribute  to  any  one  and  bound  only 
to  love  his  fellowman  and  serve  his  God  as  to  him  may  seem 
best . 

EQUAL  !  That  is  the  word!  On  that  word  I  plant  myself 
and  my  party — the  equal  right  of  every  child  born  on  earth  to 
have  the  opportunity  “to  burgeon  out  all  that  there  is  within 
him.”  — AYCOCK. 


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ECONOMY  TO  CONSOLIDATE 
HIGH  SCHOOLS 


We  are  getting  further  and  further  away  from  that  old 
idea  that  wherever  we  can  get  together  a  dozen  or  a  score 
of  high  school  pupils  and  one  teacher  that  we  can  drive 
down  a  peg  and  say  that  we  will  have  here  a  high  school. 
The  requirements  for  a  high  school  have  become  stand¬ 
ardized  and  it  has  been  found  by  experience  that  to  try  to 
have  a  high  school  with  much  less  than  these  standard 
requirements  is  more  or  less  a  waste  of  energy  and  money. 

The  main  requirements  for  a  standard  high  school  are : 
first,  three  high  school  teachers ;  second,  proper  equip¬ 
ment;  and  third,  about  fifty  high  school  pupils  as  a  min¬ 
imum.  Now  why  are  these  things  necessary?  It  takes 
three  teachers,  at  least,  to  teach  four  years  high  school 
work  in  a  manner  worth  while.  It  takes  a  certain  amount 
of  equipment  and  apparatus  to  do  the  work  with.  Less 
than  45  or  50  pupils  for  this  outlay  would  be  very  expen¬ 
sive  per  capita,  for  something  like  four  thousand  dollars 
per  year  is  about  as  little  as  a  standard  high  school  can  be 
maintained  on.  Therefore,  if  a  community  has  less  than 
the  above  number  of  pupils  for  high  school  instruction  it 
is  usually  better  to  transport  them  to  another  community 
if  it  is  not  too  inconvenient. 

For  example,  the  Camp  Glenn  Consolidated  School  is 
located  within  a  few  miles  of  Morehead  City.  We  trans¬ 
port  the  high  school  pupils  from  this  district  to  Morehead 
City  High  School  for  something  like  $25  per  month,  and 
it  does  not  cost  a  penny  more  to  run  the  Morehead  City 
High  School  with  these  pupils  in  it,  but  it  would  cost  the 
Camp  Glenn  Consolidated  District  at  least  from  $300  to 
$500  per  month  to  offer  these  children  the  same  advan¬ 
tages  at  home. 

As  a  further  example,  last  year  we  taught  58  high 
school  pupils  at  the  three  schools  of  Straits,  Marshallberg 
and  Smyrna  with  an  average  attendance  respectively  of 
22.29,  18.31  and  17,  at  the  different  places.  Counting 


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what  transportation  was  done  last  year  for  this  work,, 
which  was  only  one  truck,  the  average  monthly  cost  was 
$8.02  per  pupil.  This  year  we  are  transporting  these 
schools  to  Smyrna  where  we  have  three  high  school 
teachers,  a  well  equipped  building,  and  are  doing  standard 
high  school  work;  and  including  the  cost  of  transporta¬ 
tion  and  everything  else  it  is  costing  us  only  $5.74  per 
pupil  per  month.  Sometimes  consolidation  is  an  econom¬ 
ical  proposition.  This  is  due  to  the  fact  that  pupils  can 
be  taught  cheaper  per  capita  in  large  numbers  where 
classes  can  be  better  arranged  and  organized. 


STACY  ELEMENTARY  SCHOOL 


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“WHERE  THERE  IS  NO  VISION  THE 
PEOPLE  PERISH” 


People  do  not  need  wealth  in  particular,  they  need  a 
vision.  No  people  of  faith  and  vision  ever  remained  poor. 
Beautiful  homes,  fertile  farms,  wealth  and  happiness  are 
but  the  outward  expression  of  an  ideal ;  they  are  but  the 
details  of  a  vision  worked  out  in  tangible  form. 

I  saw  in  the  mountains  of  Western  North  Carolina  a 
great  water  power,  undeveloped  and  unknown.  The  peo¬ 
ple  living  around  it  had  tilled  their  land  for  centuries  with 
an  ox  and  a  wooden  plough,  and  had  gone  ten  miles  away 
to  a  neighboring  village  to  spend  their  money,  not  real¬ 
izing  the  wonderful  source  of  wealth  Nature  had  thrust 
upon  them  nor  how  easy  it  would  be  to  develop  it. 
Finally  someone  had  a  vision  and  the  rest  was  easy.  And 
now  a  busy  little  city  sits  on  the  same  spot  where  the  oxen 
pulled  the  wooden  plough  and  beautiful  homes  stand 
where  it  was  once  dotted  with  huts ;  and  in  addition  to 
what  this  village  has  done  for  its  own  people  there  are 
constant  streams  of  power  going  out  to  different  parts  of 
the  world  to  turn  the  wheels  of  industry  and  to  serve 
mankind  in  a  thousand  ways.  Incidentally,  the  people  of 
this  village  have  become  rich. 

A  well  organized  consolidated  school  is  a  power  in  any 
community,  just  as  real  as  the  one  in  the  mountains  of 
North  Carolina  and  from  it  will  go  out  into  the  world  con¬ 
stant  streams  of  power  in  the  form  of  enlightened  man¬ 
hood  and  womanhood  to  bless  and  make  happy  those  with 
whom  they  come  in  contact ;  and  in  the  future  the  people 
will  realize  more  fully  that  the  taxes  they  have  paid  to 
complete  this  vision  are  but  bread  cast  upon  the  waters 
that  will  return  in  years  to  come  in  the  form  of  wealth 
and  manhood.  If  you  have  faith  in  your  children  invest 
in  them.  Every  sacrifice  you  make  will  be  turned  into  a 
joy,  and  every  dollar  of  tax  you  pay  to  educate  them  will 
pay  a  dividend.  “Where  there  is  no  vision  the  people 
perish.” 


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NEWPORT— A  TYPICAL  CONSOLI¬ 
DATED  SCHOOL 


In  the  Spring  of  1921  the  town  of  Newport  and  the 
surrounding  community  came  to  a  full  realization  of  the 
fact  that  the  school  advantages  offered  in  their  district 
were  not  what  such  a  community  could  and  should  offer 
to  their  children.  Newport  had  tried  one  of  these  special 
charter  schools — a  plan  never  well-suited  for  small  towns. 
This  plan  was  a  failure  compared  to  the  vision  that  the 
leading  citizens  had  in  mind  for  the  community.  Finally 
the  idea  of  co-operation  between  the  town  and  the  sur¬ 
rounding  community  in  a  large  way  for  the  purpose  of 
building  a  real  consolidated  school  took  root  and  an  elec¬ 
tion  was  called  in  July,  1921,  and  the  question  of  voting  a 
bond  issue  of  $65,000.00  for  a  new  building  and  a  thirty- 
cent  maintenance  tax  was  carried  with  an  overwhelming 
vote. 

After  the  bond  issue  of  $65,000.00  was  voted  the 
Board  of  Education  agreed  to  supplement  this  amount 
with  $11,000.00  for  the  purpose  of  securing  a  building 
with  the  necessary  equipment  for  a  model  consolidation. 
After  this  amount  was  spent  it  was  still  found  necessary 
to  borrow  from  the  State  $5,000.00  to  complete  and  equip 
the  plant. 

The  building  contains  space  for  twenty  class  rooms, 
physical  and  chemical  laboratories,  a  library  and  an  office. 
It  has  an  auditorium  with  a  seating  capacity  of  eight  hun¬ 
dred  people.  The  building  is  heated  with  steam,  lighted 
with  electricity  and  contains  a  modern  plumbing  system. 

During  the  school  year  of  1920-1921,  before  consoli¬ 
dation,  the  school  enrolled  120  children  and  had  four 
teachers.  This  year  the  school  will  enroll  between  400 
and  500  children  and  has  eleven  teachers.  The  school 
carries  a  full  four-year  high  school  course,  a  music  de¬ 
partment  in  which  is  taught  public  school  and  instru¬ 
mental  music. 

The  high  school  department  was  last  year  placed  on 


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the  accredited  list  of  standard  high  schools  of  North  Car¬ 
olina.  The  graduates  of  the  Newport  High  School  can 
enter  without  examination  any  college  in  the  State  or  in 
the  South.  The  State  will  also  issue  them  certificates  to 
teach  without  examination.  Here  are  some  of  the  condi¬ 
tions  which  must  be  met  before  a  high  school  can  be 
placed  on  the  accredited  list: 

1.  The  school  must  offer  a  full  four-year 
high  school  course  of  study. 

2.  Length  of  term  must  be  at  least  eight 
months. 

3.  The  school  must  have  three  whole-time 
high  school  teachers  properly  certificat¬ 
ed. 

4.  Recitation  periods  must  be  at  least  45 
minutes  long. 

5.  Fifteen  units  must  be  required  for  grad¬ 
uation. 

6.  The  school  must  offer  laboratories  and 
laboratory  equipment  for  the  teaching 
of  science. 

7.  The  school  must  have  and  maintain  a 
high  school  library  of  not  fewer  than 
300  volumes. 

8.  The  school  must  maintain  an  average  in 
the  high  school  department  of  not 
fewer  than  45. 

The  above  conditions  are  based  on  the  supposition  that 
the  district  offers  adequate  buildings,  maintenance  tax 
and  other  necessary  elements  that  go  into  the  making  of 
a  grammar  school  upon  which  a  high  school  can  be  based 
and  maintained. 

At  the  time  this  school  was  planned  the  town  of  New¬ 
port  and  the  surrounding  community  was  fortunate  in 
having  some  rather  far-sighted  leadership  both  among  its 
own  citizens  and  also  in  the  County  Board  of  Education. 


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They  did  not  stop  at  planning  merely  for  the  four  hun¬ 
dred  pupils  which  they  enrolled  the  first  year.  They 
planned  and  built  a  building  that  will  accommodate  with 
ease  six  hundred  children.  This  lay-out  appeared  rather 
extravagant  to  some  of  the  more  conservative  citizens 
who  were  being  taxed  for  it,  but  to  those  who  have  taken 
the  time  to  view  the  matter  from  all  angles,  the  wisdom 
of  the  leaders  has  already  been  admitted.  The  building 
is  two-thirds  full  now  and  there  is  a  good  lot  of  territory 
yet  that  may  come  into  the  district. 

The  County  Board  of  Education  plans  for  the  future 
a  few  large  consolidations  for  the  whole  county.  By  the 
very  geography  of  the  county  the  Newport  District  must 
grow  larger.  It  already  contains  150  square  miles  of  ter¬ 
ritory  and  there  are  yet  two  outlying  districts  within  easy 
reach  of  this  school.  It  is  not  the  plan  of  the  district  to 
try  to  go  out  and  compel  these  districts  to  come  in,  but 
it  stands  to  reason  that  parents  who  have  the  welfare  of 
their  childeen  at  heart  are  not  going  to  be  many  years  in 
coming  to  the  conclusion  that  their  children  deserve  just 
as  good  advantages  as  the  children  of  the  Newport  Dis¬ 
trict.  Whenever  they  come  to  this  conclusion,  as  one  out¬ 
lying  district  has  already  done,  the  school  stands  with 
open  doors  ready  to  offer  its  training  to  every  boy  and 
girl  who  lives  within  a  reasonable  distance  and  can  be 
brought  to  the  school.  When  the  territory  is  brought  in 
that  can  be  accommodated  both  from  the  standpoint  of  the 
size  of  the  building  and  the  geography  of  the  surrounding 
territory  the  district  will  contain  about  200  square  miles 
of  territory.  As  the  district  grows  and  the  population  be¬ 
comes  more  dense  the  wisdom  of  those  who  planned  the 
building  will  be  more  apparent.  The  building  is  large 
enough  to  take  care  of  the  children  that  may  normally  be 
expected  for  a  period  of  five  or  six  years. 


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BARKERS  ISLAND  SCHOOL 


SEA  LEVEL  ELEMENTARY  SCHOOL 


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THIS  IS  THE  SPECIAL  ACT  UNDER 
WHICH  CARTERET  COUNTY  MAY 
APPROVE  AND  ADOPT  THE 
COUNTY-UNIT  PLAN 

AN  ACT  TO  ECONOMIZE  AND  EQUALIZE  SCHOOL  ADVAN¬ 
TAGES  IN  CARTERET  COUNTY,  BY  SUBMITTING  THE 
SAME  TO  VOTE  OF  THE  PEOPLE  IN  SAID  COUNTY. 


The  General  Assembly  of  North  Carolina  do  enact: 

Section  1.  That  upon  the  written  request  of  one-fifth 
of  the  qualified  voters  of  Carteret  County  outside  of  the 
graded  school  districts  of  Morehead  City  and  Beaufort, 
the  board  of  county  commissioners  of  said  county  shall 
call  an  election  for  the  purpose  of  submitting  to  the  qual¬ 
ified  voters  of  said  county  the  question  of  whether  or  not 
there  shall  be  levied  and  collected  annually,  in  addition  to 
all  other  taxes  authorized,  a  special  tax  of  not  to  exceed 
fifty  cents  on  the  one  hundred  dollars  worth  of  property, 
observing  the  constitutional  ratio  and  the  constitutional 
limitation  on  poll  tax,  in  order  to  increase  the  school  term 
of  said  county,  to  equalize  school  advantages  in  the  coun¬ 
ty,  to  provide  adequate  buildings  and  equipment,  and  to 
pay  principal  and  interest  on  debts  assumed  from  districts 
as  hereinafter  provided. 

Section  2.  The  rules  governing  the  election  shall  be 
as  near  as  may  be  the  “Rules  governing  elections  for  local 
taxes/’  and  those  in  favor  of  the  ratification  of  this  act 
shall  vote  a  ticket  on  which  shall  be  written  or  printed 
“In  favor  of  economizing  and  equalizing  school  advan¬ 
tages  in  Carteret  County,”  and  those  opposed  to  the  rati¬ 
fication  of  the  act  shall  vote  a  ticket  upon  which  shall  be 
written  “Against  economizing  and  equalizing  school  ad¬ 
vantages  in  Carteret  County.”  The  territory  included  in 
this  act  shall  be  all  of  that  part  of  Carteret  County  not 
included  in  the  special  chartered  districts  of  Morehead 
City  and  Beaufort  Graded  Schools.  It  shall  be  left  to  the 
discretion  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  these  two  graded 


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school  districts  as  to  whether  or  not  either  or  both  shall 
vote  on  the  question  of  becoming  a  part  of  the  territory 
mentioned  above.  In  case  either  or  both  of  these  districts 
should  want  to  vote  in  a  separate  election  on  the  question 
of  whether  or  not  the  said  district  should  become  a  part 
of  said  territory,  either  at  the  same  time  the  election  is 
held  in  the  rest  of  the  county  or  at  any  later  date,  either 
of  said  districts  is  authorized  to  petition  the  county  com¬ 
missioners,  through  its  board  of  trustees,  to  call  an  elec¬ 
tion  for  that  purpose  in  either  or  both  of  said  graded 
school  districts  under  the  “Rules  governing  special  tax 
elections,”  and  if  a  majority  of  the  qualified  voters  cast 
their  ballots  in  favor  of  it,  then  the  said  graded  school 
districts  so  voting  shall  become  a  part  of  the  territory, 
and  such  election,  if  carried,  shall  serve  to  repeal  the 
charter  of  such  district  and  put  the  school  therein  under 
the  county  school  system. 

Section  3.  If  a  majority  of  the  qualified  voters  at  said 
election  shall  vote  in  favor  of  the  additional  school  tax, 
the  board  of  county  commissioners  shall  annually  there¬ 
after  levy  throughout  the  territory  included  under  said 
election,  at  the  same  time  and  in  the  same  manner  other 
taxes  are  levied,  so  much  of  the  said  tax  as  may  be  recom¬ 
mended  by  the  board  of  education,  and  the  same  shall  be 
levied  and  collected  annually  on  all  real  and  personal 
property  in  the  territory  mentioned  in  article  two,  and 
the  same  shall  be  paid  over  to  the  treasurer  of  the  county 
school  fund  and  used  by  the  board  of  education  for  the 
purpose  as  mentioned  in  section  one  of  this  act. 

Section  4.  If  a  majority  of  the  qualified  voters  favor 
the  special  county  tax,  then  it  shall  operate  to  repeal  all 
local  school  taxes  heretofore  voted  in  all  local  tax,  special 
school  taxing  districts,  and  all  special  chartered  districts 
included  in  said  territory  as  provided  in  section  two  of 
this  act;  and  all  indebtedness,  bonded  and  otherwise,  of 
such  districts  shall  be  assumed  by  the  county  board  of 
education;  and  the  indebtedness,  including  the  interest 
and  sinking  fund  on  said  bonds,  shall  be  paid  out  of  the 
revenue  derived  from  the  additional  school  tax  levied 
under  this  act,  and  in  order  that  the  board  of  education 
may  be  able  to  provide  adequate  buildings,  school  sites, 


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and  necessary  equipment  for  the  county  school  system, 
they  are  hereby  empowered  to  borrow  money  and  give 
their  note  or  notes,  which  may  in  their  discretion  be 
issued  in  serial  form  with  coupons  attached,  running  not 
longer  than  twenty-five  years,  with  no  subsequent  install¬ 
ments  more  than  three  times  greater  than  any  prior  in¬ 
stallment,  and  the  principal  and  interest  on  such  loans 
shall  be  paid  out  of  the  levy  herein  authorized. 

Section  5.  That  if  this  act  is  approved  by  a  majority 
of  the  qualified  voters,  then  it  shall  become  the  duty  of 
the  county  board  of  education  in  so  far  as  is  practical,  and 
as  rapidly  as  possible,  to  equalize  school  advantages  in 
every  section  of  the  said  territory,  and  to  this  end  the 
county  board  of  education  is  authorized  to  provide  at 
public  expense,  as  a  charge  against  the  fund  derived  from 
the  provisions  of  this  act,  to  transport  those  children  who 
live  beyond  a  reasonable  walking  distance  of  a  public 
school.  It  shall  also  be  the  duty  of  the  county  board  of 
education,  as  early  as  possible  and  as  far  as  practical,  to 
provide  all  those  who  have  completed  the  grammar  school 
with  good  high  school  facilities,  either  by  having  a  high 
school  in  walking  distance  or  by  transporting  the  pupils 
to  a  high  school. 

Section  6.  That  this  act  shall  not  operate  to  reduce 
the  funds  which  are  now  provided  or  may  hereafter  be 
provided  by  the  Legislature  for  operating  the  schools  for 
a  period  of  six  months,  but  shall  be  an  additional  amount 
to  be  used  for  the  purpose  of  increasing  the  school  term, 
to  equalize  school  advantages  in  the  territory  embraced, 
to  provide  adequate  buildings  and  equipment,  and  to  pay 
interest  and  principal  on  the  debt  and  bonds  assumed  from 
the  districts  as  hereinbefore  provided. 

Section  7.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  school  commit¬ 
tee  of  each  district  to  meet  each  year  at  the  call  of  the 
chairman  at  least  one  month  before  the  usual  time  for 
the  preparation  of  the  annual  budget  by  the  county  board 
of  education,  to  consider  the  needs  of  the  school  or  schools 
in  each  respective  district  during  the  succeeding  year,  and 
it  shall  report  its  findings  and  recommendations  to  the 
county  board  of  education,  and  the  salaries  of  ah  teacneis, 
principals,  and  superintendents  in  the  county  shall  be 

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governed  by  a  salary  schedule  adopted  by  the  county 
board  of  education  in  accordance  with  law  authorizing 
county  board  of  education  to  adopt  a  salary  schedule  for 
teachers. 

Section  8.  This  act  shall  not  interfere  in  any  way 
with  the  organization  of  schools  of  the  county  as  pro¬ 
vided  in  the  general  law;  but  if  this  act  is  approved  by 
the  qualified  voters,  the  county  board  of  education,  within 
its  discretion,  shall  have  the  authority  of  appointing  five 
instead  of  three  committeemen  for  any  school  district: 
Provided  further,  that  this  act  shall  not  apply  to  Louis¬ 
ville  School  District. 

Section  9.  That  an  election  may  be  held  under  this 
act  until  ratified  by  a  majority  of  the  qualified  voters  as 
often  as  a  petition  signed  by  one-fifth  of  the  qualified 
voters  in  said  territory  may  request.  The  expenses  of 
holding  an  election  or  elections  under  this  act  shall  be 
paid  out  of  the  general  school  fund  of  Carteret  County. 

Section  10.  That  all  laws  and  clauses  of  laws  incon¬ 
sistent  with  this  act  are  hereby  repealed,  and  this  act 
shall  be  in  force  from  the  date  of  its  ratification. 

Ratified  this  the  3rd  day  of  March,  A.  D.  1923. 


DAVIS  ELEMENTARY  SCHOOL 


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ATLANTIC  HIGH  SCHOOL 


The  Atlantic  School  District  was  the  first  in  the  county  to 
vote  a  special  school  tax  and  establish  a  public  high  school.  This 
school  has  sent  more  boys  and  girls  to  the  colleges  of  the  State 
durisg  the  past  fifteen  years  than  any  other  school  in  the  county. 

A  new  building  has  recently  been  erected  at  Atlantic.  This 
building  is  of  brick  and  contains  space  for  ten  class  rooms,  an 
office,  a  library,  a  music  room  and  an  auditorium.  The  building  is 
equipped  with  new  furniture,  laboratory  apparatus,  steam  heat 
and  electric  lights. 

This  school  is  doing  standard  high  school  work  this  year  and 
will  be  placed  on  the  accredited  list  of  high  schools  at  the  end 
of  the  term.  The  high  school  pupils  from  Sea  Level  and  Stacy 
will  be  transported  to  this  building. 

The  Board  of  Education  plans  a  department  of  teacher  train¬ 
ing  in  this  school  beginning  with  the  school  year  of  1924-25.  In 
teacher  training  the  course  offered  in  this  department  will  be  the 
equivalent  of  one  year  of  college  work. 


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